The three to four day symposium is expected to bring together experts from around the world representing a broad spectrum of disciplines. Although the overriding theme of the symposium will focus on “chrysophytes” in a broad sense, we anticipate significant contributions representing allied heterokont groups and an infusion of ideas from other fields.
In addition to regular paper sessions, we are planning four mini-symposia: paleolimnology/paleobiology, taste and odor problems in drinking water, heterokont phylogeny and use of geometric morphometric concepts in the study of algae. The symposium will include several keynote speakers who work in areas peripheral areas to chrysophyte biology, allowing for a cross fertilization of ideas. Our goal is to provide a forum to advance the study of chrysophytes. There will be a Proceedings volume published by Cramer under the Nova Hedwigia Beiheft series.
The registration deadline for the colloquium is April 16th.
The aim is to generate discussion among scientists who use morphometric approaches and to highlight the diversity of geometric morphometric applications. We invite entomologists who use geometric morphometric techniques, and who are interested in presenting their work as part of this symposium, to contact us. Please reply directly to jperry@zoo.utoronto.ca or jessw@zoo.utoronto.ca with a brief description of your research.
Please note that it is not possible for us to offer financial support for travel or other expenses associated with the symposium.
The symposium is organized by James Patterson and myself. So far we have an exciting roster of invited speakers, but we would like to encouraged anyone interested to present a contributed paper or poster to register and submit an abstract.
The URL of congress web site: http://www.ice2008.org.za/
The deadline for abstracts is 6 March 2008.